[reportage] beat-ups and inaccuracies
There are certainly elements of truth to the story and anti-foreign feeling does exist, as it does in France, Germany and Britain [BNP] and yes, there are incidents like the one mentioned. The situation is that immigrants from the southern republics are flooding in and it doesn’t take a professor to work out how the locals are going to feel, particularly if they are closer to the lower socio-economic echelons [which is the majority].
Of course criminal gangs and disgruntled locals will get together from time to time. They did this in the Cronulla riots where hooligans were being bussed in and coming via train. And what? And as usual, one side of the story is told. Gangs run migrants out of town. And how many ethnic groups were NOT run out of town?
And what of me? I’m a foreigner; I neither look nor sound like a Russian. Today when I hitched a lift, the driver couldn’t stop chattering about this and that and it’s always this way. Now my car is back in operation, sadly, such conversations must cease.
It’s like the Paris riots. A friend of mine who’d been in Paris came back and said that the locals were annoyed how the issue was beaten up – it was never quite as portrayed. And yet the major dailies ran the photo I’ve now run. Is it just to sell papers or is there some other ulterior motive behind the inaccuracies?
Way back in the dark ages, I saw a university sit-in. All right, the students got it into their heads to occupy the administration building and to sit on the floor. The police were called and they couldn’t get the students out. After two hours, the Marxist leader [later a stockbroker in his Daddy’s firm] was almost ready to accede and most of the students were getting a bit, er, peckish by this time. Enough’s enough, after all.
They decided to call it a day around 17:30.
Suddenly, onto the campus drove a star reporter and I’ll name him – Dan Webb – with a large number of people who weren’t students but were part of the entourage. Next thing, scuffles broke out, then one or two more serious incidents and the cameras rolled and Webb became the on-the-spot reporter capturing it all, just in time for the evening news.
The first Bruce Willis Die Hard portrays the type of thing. Nothing but a beat up.
Of course criminal gangs and disgruntled locals will get together from time to time. They did this in the Cronulla riots where hooligans were being bussed in and coming via train. And what? And as usual, one side of the story is told. Gangs run migrants out of town. And how many ethnic groups were NOT run out of town?
And what of me? I’m a foreigner; I neither look nor sound like a Russian. Today when I hitched a lift, the driver couldn’t stop chattering about this and that and it’s always this way. Now my car is back in operation, sadly, such conversations must cease.
It’s like the Paris riots. A friend of mine who’d been in Paris came back and said that the locals were annoyed how the issue was beaten up – it was never quite as portrayed. And yet the major dailies ran the photo I’ve now run. Is it just to sell papers or is there some other ulterior motive behind the inaccuracies?
Way back in the dark ages, I saw a university sit-in. All right, the students got it into their heads to occupy the administration building and to sit on the floor. The police were called and they couldn’t get the students out. After two hours, the Marxist leader [later a stockbroker in his Daddy’s firm] was almost ready to accede and most of the students were getting a bit, er, peckish by this time. Enough’s enough, after all.
They decided to call it a day around 17:30.
Suddenly, onto the campus drove a star reporter and I’ll name him – Dan Webb – with a large number of people who weren’t students but were part of the entourage. Next thing, scuffles broke out, then one or two more serious incidents and the cameras rolled and Webb became the on-the-spot reporter capturing it all, just in time for the evening news.
The first Bruce Willis Die Hard portrays the type of thing. Nothing but a beat up.
posted by James Higham @ 19:08
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